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• Sorry to be misleading on the blog, but it’s a coming soon sign. It’s not there yet. Please bring your steamed egg custard bun dollars elsewhere for the next few weeks.

  Posted by Foresthills72
  on June 17th, 2007 at 11:20 am

• Hahahahahaha. World’s littlest Chinatown, indeed. One should always be careful about letting us Chinese folk get a toehold. So far now there’s the bank, a really decent Cantonese seafood restaurant (East Ocean Palace) a Chinese owned Real Estate Agency (Exit Kingdom Realty on Groton St.) and now the bakery. A Chinese grocer would make it a complete beachhead.

  Posted by Corgi
  on June 17th, 2007 at 11:59 am

• Shoulda checked it out myself, but I’m busy busy busy! I’ll edit this post right now.

  Posted by Steve
  on June 17th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

• Uh-oh. I’ve been doing so well on losing weight! I’ve managed not to satisfy my curiosity about Black and Whites, but I KNOW what egg custard tarts taste like, and they are GOOD. Sigh.

  Posted by flocat
  on June 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

• Oooh I guess I should post this on my “Roll Call” but I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a Beard Papa in FoHi. Anyone? Also, can someone fill me in on what “AQUA” is. Am I dense?

  Posted by jellystone
  on June 17th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

• AQUA is a subneighborhood invented by Forest Hills 72 in his brilliant post breaking down areas of Forest Hills. It’s where I live, as does he. It’s the part of town bordered by Ascan, Queens Boulevard, Union Turnpike and Austin.

  Posted by Steve
  on June 17th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

• I’ll be very interested in their sponge cakes and their iced lemon tea, which I have enjoyed in Flushing for years. But I still need to learn how to say “not too sweet” in Mandarin. A little help?

  Posted by phatcat43
  on June 18th, 2007 at 10:22 am

• not too sweet = Bu1 Yao4 Tie4 Tien2
  But the execution is a little tricky. Those numbers refer to the four tones of Mandarin. 1 is high, 2 is rising, 3 is falling-rising and 4 is falling.

  This site has some the tones: http://www.graman.net/hongkong/tone/index.htm

  Give it a try, maybe they’ll understand you, maybe not. It’s unlikely to land you in any trouble or be misunderstood. I left out all the additional politeness language that is normally used. Trying to speak our crazy language should be considered enough of a politeness, but you could add a shieh4-shieh4 (thank you) at the end.

  Also, please note that I did not use the standard romanization, which is hard to read unless you’ve studied it. Instead I’ve used the English spelling that I think comes closest to how it sounds to me.

  Posted by Corgi
  on June 18th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

• Alternatively, you can say “Sao3 (rhymes with Pow) Taang2″ (less sugar)

  Posted by BLINK
  on June 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

• I love Fay Da!!! This is exciting. I’m not Asian but I really love their sesame balls and steam buns. Their B-Day cakes have a wonder icing that is not full of sugar.

  Posted by mlf
  on June 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm

• re Corgi’s comment. that realty is not chinese. It’s vietnamese. For some reason they don’t want people to know they are vietnamese.

  Posted by malf
  on June 25th, 2007 at 2:01 am

• “smallest chinatown”? how about catering to the shifting demographics of the area? i’m so excited about the opening of this Fay Da. it really shows that catering to diverse ethnic groups in the area only help to strengthen the local economy and refresh the identity of the neighborhood

  Posted by NoFoHi Neighbor
  on July 6th, 2007 at 3:59 am

• Fay Da Bakery and the new Bakery on Austin street are good additions to the area.

  I wish the T-Bone diner would be replaced. I remember back awhile ago the place was packed with these older folks who live in the area so I guess they like poor quality food and poor service.

  As the older folk die out, I think so will the customer base.

  Posted by aj023
  on July 8th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

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